Why Recycle Computers

According to the National Recycling
Institute, 500 million computers became
obsolete in 2007. As of 2007,
Massachusetts prohibits disposing
computers into the trash – it must now be
responsibly recycled, often requiring a
fee from either the town or a recycling
center. In his book Natural Capitalism,
Paul Hawken writes when you discard a
five-pound laptop you are also throwing
away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it
took to make it. Besides benefiting from
not having to pay for recycling a
computer, donors who donate computer
equipment can receive tax deduction
receipt.

Used computers in a downsizing or uncertain
economy can offer low cost alternatives to low
income families or nonprofit organizations,
such as schools, and bridging the digital
divide.

Click here if you want to recycle your
computer, or laptop, and receive a tax-deduction
receipt for it.
Computer Recycling

Recycling for Charities
Wellesley, MA 02481

Recycling
saves 95 percent of the energy required to make
aluminum from ore.

If
the recycling rate were to reach 80% at the
current level of beverage container sales, nearly
3 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions would
be avoided. This is equivalent to taking nearly
2.4 million cars off the road for a full year.

U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and
Report

In
1972, 53 million pounds of aluminum were recycled.
Today, we exceed that amount weekly.